Renée

@reneestephen

Free esprit de l'escalier. Salty posts from a salty island.

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Renée@reneestephen· 18h

Hmmmmmmm

A Facebook user "Kathy Tremblay" posts "I'd consider this a threat!" It is a screenshot of a PM from someone named "Alberta forever canadian" with 7 followers. They supposedly write "Your (sic) a traitor to canada and Alberta and when King carney puts an end to your rebellion and have you, and all your traitor sums rounded up and Shot for treason ill.ve (sic) laughing at you !!!!! Your friended Albertan born should of gotten Killed and hopefully he will once this is all over!

A tweet, back from when Twitter wasn't horrible. The photo: An elderly man in dark blue jeans and a light blue men's collared shirt with pocket protector standing very straight with his hands at his sides. He is in his driveway. In front of him is a ripped up American flag and in front of that in hilariously big letters "BLACKS RULE." Two rusty chairs are positioned in front of that, presumably to stop people from driving on it and destroying the "evidence."

The caption: "blacks rule" - said no black person ever. he really just spray painted his own driveway trying to blame BLM...mess

Renée@reneestephen· 22h

That's not quite it. It's that the hundredth guy to come and try the same nonsense is boring.

XKCD "Free Speech":
Panel 1, Stick Figure says: Public service announcement: the right to free speech means the government can't arrest you for what you say.
Panel 2, close up stick figure head: It doesn't mean that anyone ELSE has to listen to your blshit, or host you while you share it.
Panel 3, full stick figure: The 1st Amendment doesn't shield you from criticism or consequences.
Panel 4, close up: If you're yelled at, boycotted, have your show cancelled, or get banned from an internet community, your free speech rights aren't being violated.
Panel 5, full body: it's just that the people listening think you're an asshole.
Panel 6, a door: and they're showing you the door.

Renée@reneestephen· 8d

Hilarious moment of spotting a rogue Canadian landmark in this SciFi book I'm enjoying and being all WAIT WHAT 😂🍻 Had totally forgotten that @tanyahuff.bsky.social is from Ontario! RIP the Sleepless Goat Café / Workers Co-Op in Kingston. Loved that place so much when we lived there.

Excerpt: "skin crawl. Once inside, he crossed to join Nat and Doc at a table against the far wall. Although all races drank in the Sleepless Goat, the staff was predominantly Human, albeit Humans the universe had chewed up and spat out. No one ended up slinging drinks in a place like the Goat if they had options. Every server in the place showed the signs of one or more addictions, but Cho preferred it to any of the other dozen or so bars on the station. When he wanted a drink," excerpt ends.

Renée@reneestephen· 12d

United States

AeroGrow
Black Magic
Blossom
Botanicare LLC
Bovung
Can-Filters
Earthgro
Ecoscraps
Gavita
General Hydroponics
Greendigs
Greenlight
Hawthorne Gardening Company
Hyponex
Lunarly
Miracle-Gro
Mother Earth
Ortho
Ortho Elementals
Osmocote
Scotts
Scotts Lawn Service
Supersoil
TOMCAT
Vermicrop Organics
Whitney Farms

Outside the U.S.

Gavita Holland B.V.
Pathclear
Scotts Ecosense
Weedol

Renée@reneestephen· 13d

This one is also pretty good.

John Paul Jones, another possibly real person?: "Ksi lisimis is still in the pre production phase and isn't expected to be finished until 2032."

I reply: "Extremely good point John, if Poilievre was in charge tosay he'd have been able to harness the untapped power of time itself and travel back to 2021 to begin construction. But no, these Liberals just aren't willing to do the hard work of building a time machine for the Canadian Economy. They just bleat on about "unnecessary risk to the time stream" and "dangerous divergence", blah blah blah. Everyone knows that divergence is just a liberal hoax to enforce fifteen minute-ago cities."

Renée@reneestephen· 13d

And when I say "total shit," sometimes I'm really great at it. (Sidenote, ftr the idea that "natural gas" is in any way shape or form environmentally friendly and is doing anything other than worsen the climate crisis is total propaganda and nonsense. Anyway.)

BREAKING: New agreement SIGNED between KSI Lisims and Juniper to sell Canadian natural gas to Europe

Ron Duncan, actual real human person possibly?? hard though it is to believe: "Sending it over in big balloons, no pipeline,"

Me, being hilarious, though I'm sure it will be lost on poor Ron: "That's right Ron, the real conspiracy is that the Liberals failed to appease Poseidon, the Lord of the Seas (and Upper Manchester), so he refuses to let them build a pipeline under the Pacific Ocean. Talks are ongoing but their chances look bleak, if Poilievre was in charge he'd get it done with his tough-on-crime approach and down to earth folksy sensibility, unlike these out of touch Liberal elites with their talk of "extreme oceanic pressures" and "unplumbed depths of the cold, forbidding seas where Dread Cthulhu lies domant, not to be disturbed." Typical radical environmentalist nonsense."

Renée@reneestephen· Jul 1

Phone number field with each individual number as a drop-down listing numbers 0-9

Renée@reneestephen· Jun 19

😠

Renée@reneestephen· Jun 3

Someone holds out their hands, in which is a tiny white kitten mid-scream. It looks very fierce indeed. The caption is "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this." which harkens back to text from 1990s MMORPGs.

Renée@reneestephen· Mar 23

Okay to save you clicking, it is this and it is $500.

Renée@reneestephen· Mar 14

They're making me tap the sign

A 1960s computing manual attributed to IBM says: "A computer can never be held accountable

Therefore a computer must never make a management decision"

Renée@reneestephen· Mar 11

Bahaha this is all true

The 7
You're fun and social with endless energy, and you're also kind of a mess, which attracts interesting and occasionally unsettling people to you. We can't rely on you, but goodness graciousssss are you the life of the party. Despite the effortless cool factor, you can hang with anyone, including the snoozes turning out the lights at 8:00 PM. Though no one can expect you to run on a schedule, it's well-known wherever we're going will be a blast, and someone has to keep this city alive. It WOULD be nice if you showed up on time sometimes.

Renée@reneestephen· Feb 27

Garnett Genuis has asked about Antifa members in the CAF. I had a name for him.

Hi Mr. Genuis,

I saw that you're searching for Antifa (anti-fascist) personnel in Canada's Armed Forces. Wanted to submit a name for your records. That name is my grandfather, George Donald Stephen (1923 - 2013). George served in the Navy's Pacific Theatre during World War Two.

While fighting against fascism, he participated in convoy duties, protecting merchant shipping, and also liberated POWs at the end of the war. He never spoke about this time, but I learned from my father later that those POWs were so emaciated and far gone from torture and starvation that 1/3rd of them made it onto my Grandpa's ship only to die on the trip home.

I have many friends and other family members who served at various times in the CAF and they were all opposed to fascism too. But I wanted to tell you myself about my Grandpa, because I know for certain that were he still alive he would be so, so ashamed that someone like you got elected to represent of the Canada he fought for.

Sincerely,
Renée Stephen

Renée@reneestephen· Feb 5

Still from the series 'Vikings' with two Vikings, a man and a woman both with white-blonde hair, looking skeptically off-camera

Renée@reneestephen· Jan 2

I took this photo the other day. Daffs are gonna be so confused when it snows on them.

Foreground: a blooming pink and white fuscia, with daffodil shoots coming up below. Background: Christmas wreaths painted on a window and a fir garland with a gold bow hanging on an office wall.

Renée@reneestephen· Dec 18

Ref for those not as old and online as me:

A photo of an Amazon Alexa. Top caption "people in the sixties: the government will wiretap your home" Bottom caption: "people now: hey wire tap, can cars eat pancakes?"

Renée@reneestephen· Nov 6

This you? Speaking of triggered...

Renée@reneestephen· Sep 26

To adapt a paraphrase of Emma Goldman, revolution without surfing isn't a revolution worth having. (You seem like the kind of tiresome bore who would appreciate being educated, so here's the full sentiment in her original words:

At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. Certainly not with such reckless abandon, anyway. It was undignified for one who was on the way to become a force in the anarchist movement. My frivolity would only hurt the Cause.
I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business. I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. "I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things." Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal. (p. 56, Emma Goldman, 'My Disillusionment in Russia', 1923)

Renée@reneestephen· Jul 30

The Netherlands wasn't the Netherlands either. Until they were. This is Amsterdam.

The same road in Amsterdam in the 70s vs today. The 70s road is full of smog and cars, the second road is clear and full of pedestrians and bikes.

Renée@reneestephen· Jul 5

The world is going to shit and I'm sad, so I went and bought an art about it. This is a luxury I invest in defiantly. There is so much disposable mass market crap in our lives that's landfill bound, instead I want to leave behind beautiful things someone made with their brilliant hands.

A painting sits on a pile of old books against a deep blue wall. It depicts a goblet full of amber liquid, sitting on top of torn sheet music. In the background, curtains. The detail includes light through the goblet onto the paper, and droplets on the glass.

Renée@reneestephen· Jul 3

Over on the medicine Reddit (meddit), where the posts used to be about preferred treatment protocols and professional development dilemmas, everything is fine.

A screenshot of the top posts on r/medicine: "Rural hospitals at risk", "It's a lie and politicians are modern day cowards", "Big Beautiful Bill and kidney patients," re barriers to treatment getting worse, and "US CDC accepts listed vaccine panel's recommendations for RSV, meningococcal shots." (derogatory)

Renée@reneestephen· Jun 27

Sounds painful, but what flavor? Grape, strawberry, watermelon...?

Renée@reneestephen· Jun 17

He's got a Niblonian gravitas about him...

Fry from Futurama holding Nibbler. Fry says "I cleaned your poop!" And Nibbler responds with his ridiculously deep voice "Quite possible. We live long and are celebrated poopers."

Renée@reneestephen· Jun 1

I got curious about what you were saying. Turns out it's bad. It doesn't improve service (and in fact makes it worse) and it caters to business clients on the backs of the public and workers alike. www.academia.edu/1123987/The_...